Content-Awareness

Smoothwall uses a combination of blocklists along with our Content-aware analysis, which anylizes the content of any page as it’s loading and categorize that page on-the-fly, prompting an intelligent content filtering decision.

Watch a short video below to see how content-aware filtering can revolutionize your web filtering policy, or get in touch for a custom quote for your organization.

The web is changing

Tons of new content is coming online daily, and most of it is Web 2.0 and user created. How long would it take to categorized all this published material in a URL filtering system?

30

trillion

websites indexed by Google

400

websites

created every minute

1

million

Google searches every minute

100

million

Tweets sent today

45

million

Tumblr posts today

1

million

blog posts written today

Can your web filter keep up?

Content Aware vs URL blocklists

Smoothwall’s content-aware technology has distinct advantages over URL block lists, the most important of which is keeping up with changes on the web as they happen. Because we are able to scan the content of a page, including text, search terms, domain, image tags, comments or other page heuristics, Smoothwall is able to make a more intelligent filtering decision.

Take a look at all the features Smoothwall offers to control content, filter the web, and keep users safe online.